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Overall score		100%
Would you do it again?		Yes
Details:
Scenery		80%
PB potential		60%
Atmosphere		80%
Organisation		80%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		60%

In short: More challenging than I expected, need to work on me hills!
Date of review: May 25, 2007

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Overall score		60%
Would you do it again?		Yes
Details:
Scenery		80%
PB potential		40%
Atmosphere		80%
Organisation		60%
Value		100%
Beginner-friendliness		80%

In short: A Fabulous day
In full: really pleased with my time,atmosphere was good & the marshalls, supporters & villagers of naseby really helped boost the moral after those hills!thank you.anyone know where we can get our finishing positions from?
Date of review: May 21, 2007

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Overall score		100%
Would you do it again?		Yes
Details:
Scenery		80%
PB potential		60%
Atmosphere		60%
Organisation		80%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		100%

In short: A really enjoyable morning, the sunshine was very welcome. Very well organised event in a beautiful part of Northamptonshire. "Hills", What Hills, they add to the fun!
Date of review: May 21, 2007

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Overall score		80%
Would you do it again?		Yes
Details:
Scenery		80%
PB potential		60%
Atmosphere		80%
Organisation		80%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		60%

In short: i dont know why people are complaing about the hills, this is positvly flat compared to devon!
In full: excellent course, with a nice down hill mile down to the finish, i dont know why people complain about hills, i was one of them last year! living in devon brings a new meaning to the world hill, these are just minor imperfections on a flat road! overall great race do it every year!
Date of review: May 21, 2007

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Overall score		100%
Would you do it again?		Yes
Details:
Scenery		100%
PB potential		40%
Atmosphere		60%
Organisation		80%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		40%

In short: Lovely day not great for hilly run though.
Date of review: May 21, 2007

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Overall score		80%
Would you do it again?		Maybe
Details:
Scenery		100%
Atmosphere		80%
Organisation		80%
Value		60%
Beginner-friendliness		60%

In short: Good atmosphere - tough run!
In full: Good atmosphere & plenty of water stations, which was great given the weather! The run was quite hilly though and made 10k seem a lot further than usual!
Date of review: May 21, 2007

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Overall score		40%
Would you do it again?		No
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Scenery		80%
PB potential		40%
Atmosphere		40%
Organisation		40%
Value		60%
Beginner-friendliness		60%

In short: Low key race
In full: Apparently there were supposed to be 700+ runners in the 15 mile race. I think most probably opted for the superior Sheffield Half on the same day.
Very tough weather conditions - I got very burnt ! Would have been better on the original date.
The scenery was very nice but 'samey'. Country lanes with few runners on them at times were quite lonely. Was just like a training run. I prefer a mixture of rural and town.
There were good points though. Plenty of water and good enthusiastic marshalling. Thanks also to the children who were handing out sweets to runners !!
Goody bag was good and the energy shake was nice. medal poor though.
Date of review: May 21, 2007

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Overall score		80%
Would you do it again?		Yes
Details:
Scenery		80%
PB potential		40%
Atmosphere		80%
Organisation		80%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		80%

In short: Good race over a course of 2 halves
In full: Very scenic route. Very hilly over the first 5km. Marshalls were great, particularly over the first half of the race but the lack of distance markers meant that pacing was almost impossible.
Great atmosphere too.
Unsure as to why the 15 mile start was so late on such a warm day. It also meant that the majority of the crowd had gone home by the time the people who had worked the hardest were finishing.
Date of review: May 21, 2007

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Overall score		80%
Would you do it again?		Maybe
Details:
Scenery		80%
PB potential		60%
Atmosphere		80%
Organisation		80%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		80%

In short: Undulating ? No Hilly ? Yes
In full: A lovely race at a lovely venue. Just wish the hill at about 5k was a little easier !
It's a very well organised race and the support of the marshals is brilliant.
My only criticisms would be the previously mentioned lack of marker posts in the first 4km. I confused myself by reading marker posts for the marshals posts.
Only other moan is how after a wide open start the route quickly narrows down at the gateway onto the track. This causes a bit of a bottleneck which takes a while to sort itself out.
However the gripes shouldn't detract from a great race. Managed to improve my 2006 time by ten minutes thanks to a merciless trainer !
Date of review: May 21, 2007

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Overall score		60%
Would you do it again?		Yes
Details:
Scenery		80%
PB potential		60%
Atmosphere		60%
Organisation		60%
Value		60%
Beginner-friendliness		80%

In short: Great support from the enthusiastic marshalls
In full: All sorts of difficulties with the mile/km markers in the early stages of the race. My brochure arrived this week with an amendment on the cover stating the start was at 10.30. The actual 15mile race began at 11.00 the time originally stated in the brochure. I was there far too early. Nevertheless, a most enjoyable occasion with the enthusiasm of the marshalls being most welcome. Well done and thanks to all.
Date of review: May 20, 2007

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